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WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP OUR LOBOS~ Write a Letter to Governor Richardson ~Governor Bill Richardson490 Old Santa Fe TrailRoom 400Santa Fe, NM 87501Dear Governor Richardson,I am writing to thank you for all of your efforts to save New Mexico's wild Mexican gray wolves. Itruly appreciate your strong leadership on this issue, but our Lobos are in dire straits and need yourhelp now more than ever.A new report issued on February 8th, 2008 by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows that thereare just 23 wild lobos left in the Land of Enchantment. As a citizen of this great state, I find thisstatistic completely unacceptable.Governor Richardson, I am urging you to call for an immediate end to SOP 13 until the objective ofat least 100 wolves has been met in the Blue Range Wolf Recovery Area. Killing or permanentlyremoving wolves should not be the primary means to address conflict with cattle. If we continue onthis path, we risk the second extinction of this rare, ecologically important carnivore.Governor, please do everything in your power to save our lobos - our amigos. The Land ofEnchantment is forever indebted to your service to our wildest public lands and the wildlife thatdepend on them.Sincerely,NAMESTREETCITY, STATEZIP

WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP OUR LOBOS~ Write a Letter to Senator Bingaman ~Senator Jeff Bingaman703 Hart Senate Office BuildingWashington, DC 20510Dear Senator Bingaman,As a resident of the great state of New Mexico, I am writing to request that you stand up for theendangered Mexican gray wolf, our Lobo.Wolves help keep deer and elk herds healthy, provide left-over food for scavenging animals such asbears, eagles, and badgers, and have even been shown to restore streamside vegetation throughkeeping elk from lingering in riparian areas. They are amazing, intelligent, social animals that have acritical role to play in the ecosystems of the southwest.But they are in trouble. When reintroduction began in 1998, the Mexican wolf population wasprojected to reach 102 animals, including 18 breeding pairs by the end of 2006, and continue to risefrom there. Instead, at last count there were only 52 wolves and 3 breeding pairs in the wilds of NewMexico and Arizona combined. There are just 23 wolves left in the Land of Enchantment.I am urging you to work with the Fish and Wildlife Service to change course and create policiesbased on science, not politics. If we continue on this path, we risk the second extinction of this rare,ecologically important carnivore.Our Lobos need your help. Please do everything in your power to protect our Mexican wolves andhelp steer this program in the right direction.Sincerely,NAMESTREETCITY, STATEZIP